Month: March, 2014

Our nation’s glorification of violence and sex are symptoms of a fundamental breakdown in America’s cultural foundation. The unconscionable proliferation of murder through taxpayer-supported abortion is a sign that too many in this nation no longer even have a basic respect for the right of a human to be born.

With the redefinition of marriage, the time-honored union between a man and woman is now being bastardized in an effort to legitimize relationships traditionally recognized as immoral. Our society has effectively relegated the concept of a married couple rearing children as a unit, with unwed mothers outnumbering their married counterparts in many communities.

As much as the humanist crowd argues the contrary, America relies on its citizens’ faith in God to maintain our unparalleled level of freedom and opportunity. According to a recent poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal, however, Americans’ level of faith has dropped precipitously in recent years.

More than one in 5 respondents revealed that religion plays “not that important” a role in their lives. When the question was first asked in 1997, just 14 percent selected that response.

The government of Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is backing the fascist-led putsch that ousted Ukraine’s elected pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych. Far from opposing anti-Semitism and defending Ukrainian Jews from the neo-Nazi parties that have joined the new coalition government, Israel is doing its best to deny that any such threat exists.

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman issued an anodyne statement last week saying: “Israel is following the events in Ukraine with grave concern, worries for the safety of the Ukrainian people and hopes that the situation does not deteriorate and that no human lives are lost.” This came just two days after Netanyahu’s visit to Washington and, reportedly, after pressure from the US State Department for a public display of support for the new government in Kiev.

A protester crashed a live BBC News broadcast to warn of “institutional pedophile rings” operating in the United Kingdom.

BBC reporter Norman Smith was scheduled to conduct an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg but moments earlier Clegg was forced to flee the scene in central London after he was confronted by a protester, who according to Norman “spoiled the occasion”.

The same protester, Bill Maloney, then hijacked the BBC broadcast to proclaim, “institutional pedophile rings operating in this country now, I just asked Nick Clegg a question…” before directors cut the live feed and crossed back to the main BBC anchor who offered his “apologies” for the incident.

Heinz has vowed to vigorously defend itself after becoming the latest food giant to be targeted in a false advertising lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers by describing products made from GM crops as ‘all-natural’.

One of the heirs of the du Pont chemical company family fortune is trying to avoid jail for a second time for molesting one of his own children.

Nearly a decade ago, Robert H. Richards IV was accused of raping his then-3-year-old daughter. He initially denied the charges and it went to court. During the trial, Richards offered to take a polygraph, which is subsequently failed. After that, he came clean, admitting to the charges and saying that he was “ill.”

The story should have ended there, with Richards going away for a long time, but instead – sitting on a smoking gun, a confession to his crimes – the prosecutors instead let Richards plea out for a much less severe charge of “fourth-degree rape,” which still should have seen Richards going to jail for up to 15 years, but Richards got off with probation.

The justice system isn’t usually so kind to admitted child molesters, but it may have had something to do with who Richards is. According to the USA Today, Richards family name was a deciding factor in the case:

Richards is a scion of two prominent Delaware families — the du Pont family who built the chemical empire and the Richards family who co-founded the prestigious corporate law firm Richards Layton & Finger. Du Pont family patriarch Irenee du Pont is his great grandfather. His father, Robert H. Richards III, was a partner in the law firm until his 2008 retirement.

Preliminary Findings

A team of USGS scientists led by Bill Ellsworth analyzed changes in the rate of earthquake occurrence using large USGS databases of earthquakes recorded since 1970. The increase in seismicity has been found to coincide with the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in several locations, including Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Ohio. Much of this wastewater is a byproduct of oil and gas production and is routinely disposed of by injection into wells specifically designed and approved for this purpose.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a press release yesterday indicating that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck Prague, Oklahoma in 2011 was unintentionally human-induced.

The USGS claims that the magnitude 5.0 earthquake triggered by waste-water injection the previous day “trigger[ed] a cascade of earthquakes, including a larger one, [which] has important implications for reducing the seismic risk from waste-water injection.”

Injection wells are considered by some to be the most environmentally sound method of disposing of waste-water — which is a byproduct of both hydrofracking and conventional oil production — because they use the earth itself to both filter and contain the pollution.